Measuring temperature has its risks and uncertainties, you can bank on it.
Is this how we visually frame the “Hottest Year Ever”?
Here’s the location in warmer times. The location is reminiscent of some other thermometers in parking lots we’ve seen.
h/t to Mike Smith
Oh now I get it! The sign should have had “K” for Kelvin instead of “F” for Fahrenheit!
The temperature looks correct for the conditions. It’s just that it shows an “F” instead of a “K”
No. No it isn’t.
Now we know where Hansen gets his information.
Maaaate, that’s funny!
No, no, you are all wrong.
Mr. Gore will tell you that that is the temperature measured at the bottom of the foundations of the structure.
Speaking of funny, somebody needs to do a screen capture if this hasn’t been done already.
Earth’s orbit around and orientation toward the Sun change over spans of many thousands of years. In turn, these changing “orbital mechanics” force climate to change because they change where and how much sunlight reaches Earth. (Please see for more details.) Thus, changing Earth’s exposure to sunlight forces climate to change. According to scientists’ models of Earth’s orbit and orientation toward the Sun indicate that our world should be just beginning to enter a new period of cooling — perhaps the next ice age.
http://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/big-questions/what-are-the-primary-causes-of-the-earth-system-variability/
Maybe the decimal point between the two sixes is burned out?
Another photoshop attempt by the believers. Desperation ???
Close enough for government work.
OT but maybe worthy of a WUWT posting. ;O)
We will have to wait and see I suppose.
Hot time in the old town tonight?
Bdaman says at 3:49 am:
“… According to scientists’ models of Earth’s orbit and orientation toward the Sun indicate that our world should be just beginning to enter a new period of cooling — perhaps the next ice age.
http://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/big-questions/what-are-the-primary-causes-of-the-earth-system-variability/”
Let us not go over that unbelievable statement from NASA.
Get ready for the next ice age. Post about it.
And tell the IPCC and the good people at giss.nasa.gov to visit science.nasa.gov from time to time.
To follow-up on bdaman’s link…..
Note the obligatory CO2 statement in the paragraph following the one quoted:
“However, a new force for change has arisen: humans. After the industrial revolution, humans introduced increasing amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and changed the surface of the landscape to an extent great enough to influence climate on local and global scales. By driving up carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere (by about 30 percent), humans have increased its capacity to trap warmth near the surface.”
I suppose if they don’t include stuff like this, they will lose more funding @ur momisugly NASA.
I assume that number has already had the value added? That’s a LOT of value.
Here’s my prediction. The weather year will be redefined to run august to august to avoid hottest year ever statements in the middle of a big freeze.
Bdaman, it sounds like NASA is saying that humanity’s contribution of CO2 to the atmosphere has saved us all from a new Ice Age.
If that’s the case we should be pumping as much CO2 into the air as we can. If they think global warming would be bad, what do they imagine a new Ice Age would bring?
Warmth has always been very good for humanity, it has been during earth’s warming spells that humanity has prospered, and during its cooling spells that we have suffered. A new Ice Age would (will be) the worst disaster in human history.
It’s nice to know that NASA thinks we can avert it by driving SUVs.
Great. Now they have a new and warmer temp to fill in all those grids.
Accurate reporting of GISS temp. Sort of Hansen was here signature.
Heh…reminds me of one time I called the local bank operated temperature and time phone number to get an update. It said “Our temperature measurement system is working accurately again now, thank you for your comments and concern…time…9:43 pm, temperature…169 degrees….click.”
Where are the sensors in displays like these? Is some care taken to shield them from radiation? Are they measuring the air temperature, or the masonry temperature? When they are working, that is! 🙂
I assume that the sensor is built into the display somewhere, and is not just remotely reporting the temperature at the nearest airport.
We’ve got the point, but they seem to have lost their’s! LOL
The hazards of weather forecasting. Silly mistakes by our esteemed Met Office. Made me chuckle:
The Met Office predictions for this Tuesday. Surely something wrong here ed.:
Tuesday
Sunny Intervals
Max: -1°C (30°F)
Min: 0°C (32°F)
Wind: E 14mph
From the NASA website link provided above… let me see if I understand it…Humans produced more greenhouse gases which in turn causes more heat to be absorbed from the incoming sunlight which in turn causes more water evaporation and more cloud cover which causes more sunlight to be reflected back into space and thus less sunlight to be absorbed by the increase CO2. Quick everybody panic we all gonna die!
Darn you for making me calculate that. 19 F